2003－2023。
20 years have passed. What forces have led to great changes in thousands of mountain villages and made the lives of thousands of farmers prosper?
This is a major decision personally planned, deployed and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping when he was working in Zhejiang——
Since its launch in June 2003, the "Demonstration of 1000 Villages and Rectification of 10,000 Villages" project has been carried out with perseverance and perseverance for 20 years, creating thousands of beautiful villages and benefiting thousands of peasants, with remarkable results and far-reaching impact.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly issued important instructions and instructions on this project, emphasizing the need to summarize and refine in depth, popularize good experience and good practices, and all regions and relevant departments should adhere to the new development concept, adapt measures to local conditions and categorize policies, accelerate the pace of integrated urban and rural development, continue to actively promote the construction of a beautiful China, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, and lay a solid foundation for the realization of Chinese-style modernization.
The tide of the river is surging, and the sails are soaring.
Embark on a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, in Zhejiang, a demonstration area for high-quality development and common prosperity, and on the land of Shenzhou full of vitality, a beautiful picture of "a thousand villages towards the future, ten thousand villages rushing for common prosperity, urban and rural integration to promote integration, and global creation and beauty" is slowly unfolding.
The benefit project has given birth to a new style: from beautiful countryside to a better life, opening a development path to comprehensively promote rural revitalization and build a beautiful China
Green brick Dewa, creative murals, steam trains, coffee bookstores... Walking into the new village in Dinghai District, Zhoushan City, the atmosphere of simplicity and fashion intertwined comes to the face. There are not only country houses, but also village art galleries and village bookstores.
Xinjian Village, Dinghai District, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province (taken on August 3, 2020, drone photo). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
"With the 'beautiful economy' proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, we have become more and more energetic over the years! More and more guests came, and the annual income of homestays has doubled several times, but I did not expect that the countryside could also become a place that people yearned for. Seeing the reporter, Yuan Qizhong, the owner of the farmhouse "Painting Spring Garden", sighed with emotion.
Yuan Qizhong always remembered the scene a few years ago——
In May 2015, when General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Zhejiang to investigate, he walked into Yuan Qizhong's home and talked with the villagers' representatives. After listening to everyone's briefing, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: This is a natural oxygen bar and a "beautiful economy", which confirms the truth that green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains.
From the remote and backward island village to the famous "net red village" and "demonstration village", the story of the gorgeous transformation of the new village due to the "beautiful economy" has become the epitome of the butterfly transformation of countless villages in Zhejiang in the promotion of the "Ten Million Project".
Xinjian Village, Dinghai District, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province (photo taken on August 3, 2020). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
Just 20 years ago, Zhejiang's vast countryside was a different story.
Talking about those days, many villagers have a vivid memory: the vast countryside faced "growing pains", the economy was developing rapidly, but the appearance of the village was not satisfactory. Someone once said: "Walking through village after village, every village is a garbage village". There are also peasants who make this comparison: "Waking up early to earn banknotes, counting banknotes in the garbage heap, lying in the hospital spending banknotes."
How to deal with the relationship between economic development and environmental protection?
Without research, there is no voice. In just 118 days, he traveled to 11 prefectures and cities, and Xi Jinping, who had just arrived in Zhejiang to work, carefully investigated village by village. Adhering to the problem-oriented, after in-depth investigation and study, and full understanding of the situation, the idea of a large-scale action of village rectification and construction with improving the rural ecological environment and improving the quality of life of farmers as the core gradually matured.
This is a far-sighted, far-sighted and historic project -
In June 2003, under the initiative and chairmanship of Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Zhejiang Province launched the "Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Rectification" project, focusing on the improvement of the "three lives" environment of rural production, life and ecology, Zhejiang Province launched the "Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Rectification" project: in five years, about 10,000 administrative villages were selected from the province to carry out comprehensive rectification, and about 1,000 of them were built into comprehensive moderately prosperous demonstration villages.
"The 'Demonstration of 1000 Villages and Rectification of 10,000 Villages' project is a leading project to promote the construction of new rural areas, an effective way to coordinate the revitalization of urban and rural areas and 'three rural areas', and a popular project to benefit tens of millions of farmers, so that more villages can become rich villages full of vitality and characteristic charm." Xi Jinping plans for the future with vision.
In July 2003, Xi Jinping proposed the "Eight-Eight Strategy" as the general program and general strategy for Zhejiang Provincial Governance, which mentioned that "creating an ecological province and building a 'green Zhejiang'" and "ten million projects" are important starting points.
Draw blueprints, pillars and beams. During his work in Zhejiang, Xi Jinping personally attended the kick-off meeting of the "Ten Million Project" in 2003 and the on-site meeting of the "Ten Million Project" for three consecutive years and delivered a speech, pointing out the direction for the implementation of the "Ten Million Project". Since then, the "number one" in the province has directly grasped this work, which has become a practice of successive provincial party committees in Zhejiang.
Caring and guiding. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly issued important instructions and instructions and put forward clear requirements for the in-depth promotion of the "10 million projects":
In May 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping issued an important directive emphasizing that it is necessary to seriously summarize the experience of Zhejiang Province in carrying out the "Thousand Villages Demonstration Ten Thousand Villages Rectification" project and promote it. In carrying out the construction of new rural areas, all localities should persist in adapting measures to local conditions and providing guidance by category, planning first, improving mechanisms, highlighting key points, making overall plans and coordination, and comprehensively improving rural production and living conditions through long-term and arduous efforts.
In May 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Dinghai District of Zhoushan City to build a new community when he went to Zhejiang for research. General Secretary Xi Jinping said in the survey that many places in the country are building beautiful villages, partly because they have absorbed the experience of Zhejiang. Zhejiang's mountains and waters are beautiful, and the "demonstration of 10000 villages and rectification of 10000 villages" was indeed carried out early and forward-looking. It is hoped that Zhejiang will continue to make efforts and continue to walk ahead.
In April 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping issued important instructions, calling for further promotion of Zhejiang's good experience and practices, adapting measures to local conditions, implementing precise policies, not engaging in "political performance projects" and "image projects", doing one thing after another, year after year, building beautiful villages that are ecologically livable, so that the vast number of farmers can have more sense of gain and happiness in rural revitalization.
In October 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping made an important instruction: Zhejiang's "Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Rectification" project started early, had an accurate direction and achieved good results, which not only had a demonstration effect on the whole country, but also was recognized internationally. It is necessary to sum up experience in depth, guide and urge all localities to work towards the set goals, continue to exert efforts, make contributions for a long time, and constantly write a new chapter in the construction of a beautiful China.
Concept guidance, planning first, blueprint paving. A profound transformation from the environment to production to life and ecology continues to advance in the vast countryside.
This is a continuous struggle that continues to make efforts and work for a long time——
Walking into Yu Village, the rolling mountains, flowing water, swaying bamboo, and different shades of green spread out in front of you.
"This year's Dragon Boat Festival business is better than in previous years." Pan Chunlin, the owner of Chunlin Villa, said excitedly while greeting the guests, "I never thought that Yucun would be like today, and I think my path is the right one." ”
Young people play frisbee on the lawn in front of the Yucun Village Library in Tianhuangping Town, Anji County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province (pictured on June 5, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cai Yang
More than 20 years ago, due to the development of the "stone economy", the mountains of Yucun became "bald light" and water became "soy sauce soup". The people of Yucun, who were painfully determined, decided to change their way of life and took advantage of the "ten million projects" to close down mines and cement factories one after another. Chunlin Villa is the first homestay opened after Yucun closed the mine.
In August 2005, Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, visited Yucun and after learning about Yucun's approach, he commented on "a clever move" and clearly stated for the first time that "green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains".
In March 2020, after revisiting Yucun after 15 years and witnessing changes along the way, General Secretary Xi Jinping said with satisfaction: "The achievements made by Yucun now prove that the path of green development is correct, and if the path is right, we must stick to it." ”
On the road to the green, Yucun never stopped. Relying on the beautiful environment, the farmhouse business is booming, rural tourism is booming, and the bamboo forest carbon sink has also allowed the village to achieve "relying on the air to sell money". "From relying on the mountains to eating the mountains, to the rich mountains and raising the mountains, we truly realize that the green water and green mountains are our happiness backers." Wang Yucheng, secretary of the Yucun village party branch, said.
The green relay of Yucun is a portrayal of the continuous struggle of the "Ten Thousand Project".
From 2003 to 2010, the demonstration of "10000 villages demonstration and 100000 village rectification" led the comprehensive improvement of the village environment and promoted the village to be more clean and orderly;
From 2011 to 2020, the "Thousand Villages Boutique and Ten Thousand Villages Beautiful" deepened and improved, promoting more beautiful and livable villages;
Since 2021, "the future of a thousand villages, the common prosperity of ten thousand villages" has been iteratively upgraded, forming a vivid situation of "a thousand villages to the future, ten thousand villages to common prosperity, urban and rural integration to promote integration, and global creation and beauty".
A blueprint is drawn to the end, year after year.
This is a profound change from point to surface, iterative upgrade——
Along the way, the "10 Million Project" started from the improvement of the rural living environment, but it has changed far more than that:
"Opening" to the pollution of the crystal industry, the "black smelly river" and "milk river" in Pujiang County, Jinhua City have disappeared, and the river water has become clearer;
In the Puyang River Tongle section of Pujiang County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, staff members take a boat to salvage floating objects on the surface of the water (taken on March 14, 2023, drone photo). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
By changing ideas, Potang Village, Jianhu Street, Yuecheng District, Shaoxing City, has made the village "new look" through "micro-transformation": fashionable shoulder bags made of stone, painted walls into green trains, and transformed dangerous old tea factories into rural art museums...
Villagers of Meiping Village, Xin'anjiang Street, Jiande City, Zhejiang Province, attend a banquet and watch a theatrical performance in the village cultural auditorium (pictured on May 27, 2023). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
Zhejiang Province has built nearly 20,000 rural cultural auditoriums, carrying brand projects such as "Our Village Night" and "Our Village Games", and has become the spiritual home of the vast number of farmers...
Villagers watch the "Our Village Night" performance at the Shijiaqiao Village Cultural Auditorium in Dojo Township, Wuxing District, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province (pictured on January 11, 2023). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
Building a beautiful ecology, strengthening the beautiful economy, and creating a better life, the Zhejiang countryside of "three beautiful integration" is full of vitality.
Villagers play basketball at the floodlit court at the Cultural and Sports Center in Zhili Town, Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province (pictured on January 18, 2022). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
In the past 20 years of rural transformation, the data is the most convincing: the scope of the "10 million project" has been extended from the initial 10,000 administrative villages to all administrative villages in the province; The per capita disposable income of rural residents in Zhejiang Province has ranked first in the country for 38 consecutive years; More than half of the administrative villages with an annual operating income of more than 500,000 yuan in the village-level collective economy; The ratio of urban and rural residents' income has shrunk from 2.43 in 2003 to 1.90 in 2022...
From the province to the whole country, the "Ten Million Project" has taken root in the vast Shenzhou, reshaping the face of more rural areas in China.
In September 2018, "Ten Million Project" won the "Champions of the Earth Award", the highest environmental honor of the United Nations. The award citation commented: "This highly successful ecological restoration project shows that environmental protection and economic development go hand in hand, and the transformative power can be generated. ”
The report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "Beautiful China", the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "implementing the strategy of rural revitalization", the Party Central Committee and the State Council proposed high-quality development and construction of common prosperity demonstration areas in 2021, and the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "accelerating the construction of an agricultural power"... The enlightenment of the "Ten Million Project" is precious, and it continues to provide rich experience that can be used for reference, guiding the way forward for the development of "three rural areas" and agricultural and rural modernization in the new era.
The relevant person in charge of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Zhejiang Province said that the essence of the "10 million projects" is the vivid practice of the world outlook and methodology of Xi Jinping's thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era in the field of "three rural areas", a profound adjustment of the relationship between urban and rural areas, and the relationship between man and nature, and a major change in rural production methods, lifestyles and governance methods.
Magnificent practice brings profound enlightenment: adhere to the feelings of the people, adhere to the concept of change, and do a good job in systematic planning
"What you see in Zhejiang is what China will look like in the future, and even what the world will look like in the future!"
During a visit to villages and towns in Zhejiang, China, in 2018, Eric Solheim, then Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UNEP, said this.
After 20 years of success, the "10 million project" has continuously won positive evaluation from the world. Alistair Boswick, a professor at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, said that the "10 Million Project" proved that it is feasible to achieve economic development while greatly improving the environment in rural areas, and its experience will provide lessons for other countries, whether developed or developing.
The experience and enlightenment contained in the "10 Million Project" not only provides ideas for promoting Chinese-style modernization, but also brings reference significance for other countries in the world to improve the environment.
-- Adhere to people-oriented, take the improvement of people's livelihood and well-being as the fundamental starting point, and enhance the enthusiasm and creativity of the peasant masses in the process of joint construction and sharing.
The people are the ones who read the papers. Adhere to the perspective of the masses, start from the things that farmers are most concerned about, and take every small matter of people's livelihood as a focus to bring a sense of gain and happiness to the vast number of farmers.
Come to Xiaogucheng Village, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, with lush trees and neat courtyards. The low courtyard walls are a feature of the village.
Villagers discuss rural development under an old camphor tree in Xiaogucheng Village, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province (pictured March 14, 2022). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Weng Xinyang
"This is all the result of discussion among the villagers." Lin Guorong, secretary of the party committee of Xiaogucheng Village, told reporters that it is not easy for villagers to lower the high fence that they have spent money on, and by inviting villagers to discuss matters and taking villagers out to visit, household by household to do work, and finally everyone unanimously approved.
Open the wall, open the "heart wall". Nowadays, the open neighborhood space not only makes the village more beautiful, but also shortens the distance between neighbors and villagers and tourists, and greatly enhances the "polite" rural civilization.
Everyone discussed and handled things in the village. In many villages in Zhejiang, discussion is an important part of promoting village construction. How to solve the lack of parking spaces on holidays, how to build camping sites, how to improve the overall style of the basic environment... Whether it is under the century-old camphor tree at the entrance of the village, by the small lotus pond, or in the online council hall, the villagers actively speak and contribute to the construction of their homes.
In Xiafeng Village, Yuelong Street, Ninghai County, Ningbo City, many villagers spontaneously decorated the village environment with old furniture, old clothes, tree stumps and bamboo tops, etc., which became a unique element of the rural public art space. In Ninghai, the "Ten Million Project" has driven some villages to transform from "cleaning" and "beautification" to "artistry", and farmers' initiative has been stimulated to actively participate in improving the beauty of the countryside.
The "Ten Million Project" has always been people-centered and draws wisdom from the people. From the beginning of "I want to build a beautiful village" to now "I want to build a beautiful village", the concept of shared governance has taken root in more and more villages, and has become an inexhaustible driving force for promoting village governance and development.
-- Adhere to the new development concept, take the path of green innovative development, and make overall calculations for the quality and speed of development.
Whether the development concept is correct or not fundamentally determines the development effectiveness and even the success or failure.
In summer, Hengshanwu Village, Lingfeng Street, Anji County, the bamboo sea stretches and the breeze is practiced. Walking into the homestay "Azhong's home", it is full of greenery, chic and warm.
"My family used to be the most remote family in the village, and now you can see that it is the most lively." Lan Qingxia, the owner of the "Post-95 Generation" homestay, recalled that in the past, the village was full of mud when it rained, but now it has become a sea of bamboo forests and flowers, plus special leisure projects, tourists linger.
With the advancement of the "10 million projects", Hengshanwu Village has started a large-scale campaign of village rectification and construction, hardening roads, demolishing illegal construction, controlling sewage, and continuously improving the rural environment. "The change of thinking has changed the world, and the change of development concept has allowed us to achieve transformation again and again and find a development path that suits us." Cai Mingfu, secretary of the general party branch of Hengshanwu Village, said.
Adhere to the new development concept, the key choice in exchange for continuous leaps: "international textile capital" Shaoxing Keqiao, gritting teeth to close a number of regulated enterprises, traditional industries that once had an impact on the environment are showing a new look; Jinhua Yongkang, the "hardware capital of China", has accelerated the elimination of low-level scattered and grafted Internet, and transformed and upgraded from "overwhelming" to fine and refined; Lishui Jinyun has worked hard to improve the ecological environment, and ushered in the establishment of global special glass manufacturers with extremely high environmental requirements...
Merchants shop for clothing in the China Textile City Market in Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province (photo taken on November 11, 2022). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Han
A beautiful environment is productivity. Only by calculating the big account, long-term account and comprehensive account of ecological and environmental protection, and constantly polishing the ecological background, can we not only protect the green water and green mountains, but also bring gold and silver mountains. Complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept, correct handling of the relationship between quality and speed, and the promotion of rural revitalization can be the right direction and focus points.
-- We must adhere to the concept of system, take the road of adapting measures to local conditions, and ensure that planning is carried out first, step by step, and achieved success over a long period of time.
Liuyi Gong Bistro, "Bow and Little Bird" Bamboo Square, Social Opera Stage... Walking in Anqiaotou Village, Sunduan Street, Shaoxing City, it seems to be swimming in Lu Xun's novel. This ordinary Jiangnan village has created a variety of formats around the characteristic IP of "Lu Xun's grandmother's house", which is attracting more and more tourists.
Villagers perform a cheongsam catwalk at the social drama stage in Anqiaotou Village, Sunduan Street, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province (pictured on June 7, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cai Yang
Many villagers always come to the social drama stage early to wait for their favorite shows to start. Every weekend, there will be Yue opera, aerobics, song and dance and other performances. In the future, Anqiaotou Village will also sell more cultural and creative products related to Lu Xun's works.
A thousand villages and thousands of faces, infinite vitality.
Focusing on the flower and wood industry, Tangdi Village, Lizhu Town, Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, "Millennium Lan Township", has blazed a new road to get rich; Relying on the "one leaf" of Jingshan tea, Jingshan Village, Jingshan Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, has laid out tea whisks, tea food, tea clothing, tea utensils and other related formats, and embarked on the road of integrated development of tea tourism; From fishing by "relying on the sea to eat the sea" to creating an island style to welcome guests, Liangzhi Village, Qushan Town, Daishan County, Zhoushan City, embarked on a new road of green revitalization...
Rural areas have a different scenery from the city, and they can become more desirable places for urban people. This also opens up a broad space for exploring the integrated development of urban and rural areas.
"How many soups are soaked and how many steamed buns". The "10 Million Project" provides an example of planning first, doing what we can, step by step, and taking points to lead the way.
While paying attention to top-level design, drawing construction blueprints from a strategic height, and emphasizing adapting measures to local conditions and giving play to comparative advantages, the "10 Million Project" is injecting more Chinese wisdom and strength into creating a harmonious and livable human home.
A new starting point to compose a magnificent chapter: speed up in the new picture of "1,000 villages leading, 10,000 villages revitalizing, common prosperity in the whole region, urban and rural harmony and beauty"
In the beautiful life center of Meilin Village, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, there are 24-hour rural digital study rooms, smart health service stations, unmanned gyms, unmanned supermarkets and other public facilities. Here, it has become a reality to carry out "health portraits" of villagers through digital means and monitor and warn people with chronic diseases.
A woman self-measures her blood pressure at the Good Life Center in Meilin Village, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province (pictured June 7, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cai Yang
When the "10 Million Project" was launched, Meilin Village was one of the "demonstration villages" at that time. 20 years later, as the first batch of "future village" pilots in Zhejiang Province, this village has set off again with a digital and intelligent look towards a better future life.
Recently, for adhering to and deepening the "10 million projects", Zhejiang Province has made the latest deployment: the province will build livable and workable and beautiful villages, build a strong province with efficient ecological agriculture in an all-round way, promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas in the county in a panoramic manner, promote the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in the whole chain, strengthen rural social governance in the whole process, and accelerate the construction of a new picture scroll of "leading by thousands of villages, revitalizing ten thousand villages, common prosperity in the whole region, and harmony between urban and rural areas"...
Standing at a new starting point, drawing a new blueprint and writing a new chapter.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China focused on comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, making arrangements for accelerating the construction of an agricultural power and solidly promoting the revitalization of rural industries, talents, culture, ecology and organizations.
Embarked on a new journey, the good experience and good practices of the "10 Million Project" will continue to be promoted to the whole country, which will help accelerate the integrated development of urban and rural areas, promote the construction of a beautiful China, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, and lay a solid foundation for realizing Chinese-style modernization.
Looking at the vast land of Zhejiang, this beautiful relay spanning 20 years is taking on new vitality——
In the "shared garden" in Yulu Village, Dongyang City, Jinhua City, plant protection drones are spraying pesticides on rice, and intelligent remote monitoring boxes in the field monitor soil temperature, humidity, pH and other indicators in real time.
The village, which once creatively promoted the "sprinkling of live" methods to solve the problem of abandonment of fields, is now using digital means to help agriculture. Lu Yangchun, secretary of the party committee of Yulu Village, said that the "Yulu experience" in the new era is to grow better fields more intelligently, move towards high-tech modern agriculture, and achieve a win-win situation in efficient production and integration of agriculture and tourism.
In Houying Village, Changhua Town, Lin'an District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Wang Qiang, a major grain farmer, operates an agricultural drone to fertilize rice (pictured on September 21, 2022). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
The future village is a village full of science and technology, and it is also a village that accelerates integration with the city and complements each other.
In Yuxin Town, Nanhu District, Jiaxing City, a white building about 35 meters high and inlaid with large pieces of transparent glass resembles a "flying saucer", full of futuristic and inviting people.
This is the Yuri Future Community. Zero-carbon kindergartens, digital botanical gardens... In the well-designed exhibition areas, a variety of complex functions such as the elderly activity center, children's activity center, reading area, and volunteer home are cleverly interspersed, so that residents can enjoy "one-stop service" in a concentrated manner.
The income of farmers has ranked first in the province for 19 consecutive years, and the income ratio of urban and rural residents has shrunk to less than 1.60... The urban-rural gap continues to remain the smallest in the province, and Jiaxing is accelerating the construction of future communities and future villages, and is taking new steps on the road to further promoting urban-rural integration.
The key to sustainable rural development lies in people.
In recent years, there has been a new change in many villages in Zhejiang - there are more and more young people. There are "returnees" who have returned from the city, and more are "Xinxiang".
The once unattended "Hollow Village" has become an exquisite folk village under the transformation and operation of entrepreneurial young artists and young artists; In the "Digital Nomad Commune" in Yucun, groups of young people sit in the public area to brainstorm, and the natural and simple mountain village life allows them to find a balance between "making money to live" and "poetry and distant places"...
With the deepening of the "10 Million Project", attracting more young entrepreneurs, artists and international talents has become a new direction for each village. The gathering of "native people", "new villagers" and "returnees" will broaden the transformation channel of "green water and green mountains" into "golden mountains and silver mountains".
Yi Lianhong, Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, said that in the next step, Zhejiang will effectively promote the "10 million projects" to deepen and implement, accelerate the running on the road of integrated urban and rural development, stimulate new momentum for rural revitalization, shape the new temperament of rural style, explore a new path for common prosperity, and let the rural people enjoy the new achievements of modernization.
The future can be expected.
Surrounded by greenery, clear streams run around the village. In Xiajiang Village, Chun'an County, a sign at the entrance of the village stands out: the place where the dream began.
Aerial view of Xiajiang Village, Chun'an County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province (August 9, 2017, drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Zongzhi
Xiajiang Village is the grassroots contact point during General Secretary Xi Jinping's work in Zhejiang. This small mountain village, thanks to the guidance of the "10 million projects", completely bid farewell to "dirty and chaotic", transformed into "green and rich beauty", and formed a common prosperity consortium to drive more villages to get rich together, drawing a modern version of the "Fuchun Mountain House Map".
Sitting at the gate of his family-owned farmhouse "Wangxi", Jiang Zuhai, a villager in his 70s, had a happy smile on his face: "Our better days are yet to come..."
2003－2023。
20 years have passed. What forces have led to great changes in thousands of mountain villages and made the lives of thousands of farmers prosper?
This is a major decision personally planned, deployed and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping when he was working in Zhejiang——
Since its launch in June 2003, the "Demonstration of 1000 Villages and Rectification of 10,000 Villages" project has been carried out with perseverance and perseverance for 20 years, creating thousands of beautiful villages and benefiting thousands of peasants, with remarkable results and far-reaching impact.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly issued important instructions and instructions on this project, emphasizing the need to summarize and refine in depth, popularize good experience and good practices, and all regions and relevant departments should adhere to the new development concept, adapt measures to local conditions and categorize policies, accelerate the pace of integrated urban and rural development, continue to actively promote the construction of a beautiful China, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, and lay a solid foundation for the realization of Chinese-style modernization.
The tide of the river is surging, and the sails are soaring.
Embark on a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, in Zhejiang, a demonstration area for high-quality development and common prosperity, and on the land of Shenzhou full of vitality, a beautiful picture of "a thousand villages towards the future, ten thousand villages rushing for common prosperity, urban and rural integration to promote integration, and global creation and beauty" is slowly unfolding.
The benefit project has given birth to a new style: from beautiful countryside to a better life, opening a development path to comprehensively promote rural revitalization and build a beautiful China
Green brick Dewa, creative murals, steam trains, coffee bookstores... Walking into the new village in Dinghai District, Zhoushan City, the atmosphere of simplicity and fashion intertwined comes to the face. There are not only country houses, but also village art galleries and village bookstores.
Xinjian Village, Dinghai District, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province (taken on August 3, 2020, drone photo). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
"With the 'beautiful economy' proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, we have become more and more energetic over the years! More and more guests came, and the annual income of homestays has doubled several times, but I did not expect that the countryside could also become a place that people yearned for. Seeing the reporter, Yuan Qizhong, the owner of the farmhouse "Painting Spring Garden", sighed with emotion.
Yuan Qizhong always remembered the scene a few years ago——
In May 2015, when General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Zhejiang to investigate, he walked into Yuan Qizhong's home and talked with the villagers' representatives. After listening to everyone's briefing, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: This is a natural oxygen bar and a "beautiful economy", which confirms the truth that green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains.
From the remote and backward island village to the famous "net red village" and "demonstration village", the story of the gorgeous transformation of the new village due to the "beautiful economy" has become the epitome of the butterfly transformation of countless villages in Zhejiang in the promotion of the "Ten Million Project".
Xinjian Village, Dinghai District, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province (photo taken on August 3, 2020). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
Just 20 years ago, Zhejiang's vast countryside was a different story.
Talking about those days, many villagers have a vivid memory: the vast countryside faced "growing pains", the economy was developing rapidly, but the appearance of the village was not satisfactory. Someone once said: "Walking through village after village, every village is a garbage village". There are also peasants who make this comparison: "Waking up early to earn banknotes, counting banknotes in the garbage heap, lying in the hospital spending banknotes."
How to deal with the relationship between economic development and environmental protection?
Without research, there is no voice. In just 118 days, he traveled to 11 prefectures and cities, and Xi Jinping, who had just arrived in Zhejiang to work, carefully investigated village by village. Adhering to the problem-oriented, after in-depth investigation and study, and full understanding of the situation, the idea of a large-scale action of village rectification and construction with improving the rural ecological environment and improving the quality of life of farmers as the core gradually matured.
This is a far-sighted, far-sighted and historic project -
In June 2003, under the initiative and chairmanship of Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Zhejiang Province launched the "Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Rectification" project, focusing on the improvement of the "three lives" environment of rural production, life and ecology, Zhejiang Province launched the "Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Rectification" project: in five years, about 10,000 administrative villages were selected from the province to carry out comprehensive rectification, and about 1,000 of them were built into comprehensive moderately prosperous demonstration villages.
"The 'Demonstration of 1000 Villages and Rectification of 10,000 Villages' project is a leading project to promote the construction of new rural areas, an effective way to coordinate the revitalization of urban and rural areas and 'three rural areas', and a popular project to benefit tens of millions of farmers, so that more villages can become rich villages full of vitality and characteristic charm." Xi Jinping plans for the future with vision.
In July 2003, Xi Jinping proposed the "Eight-Eight Strategy" as the general program and general strategy for Zhejiang Provincial Governance, which mentioned that "creating an ecological province and building a 'green Zhejiang'" and "ten million projects" are important starting points.
Draw blueprints, pillars and beams. During his work in Zhejiang, Xi Jinping personally attended the kick-off meeting of the "Ten Million Project" in 2003 and the on-site meeting of the "Ten Million Project" for three consecutive years and delivered a speech, pointing out the direction for the implementation of the "Ten Million Project". Since then, the "number one" in the province has directly grasped this work, which has become a practice of successive provincial party committees in Zhejiang.
Caring and guiding. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly issued important instructions and instructions and put forward clear requirements for the in-depth promotion of the "10 million projects":
In May 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping issued an important directive emphasizing that it is necessary to seriously summarize the experience of Zhejiang Province in carrying out the "Thousand Villages Demonstration Ten Thousand Villages Rectification" project and promote it. In carrying out the construction of new rural areas, all localities should persist in adapting measures to local conditions and providing guidance by category, planning first, improving mechanisms, highlighting key points, making overall plans and coordination, and comprehensively improving rural production and living conditions through long-term and arduous efforts.
In May 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Dinghai District of Zhoushan City to build a new community when he went to Zhejiang for research. General Secretary Xi Jinping said in the survey that many places in the country are building beautiful villages, partly because they have absorbed the experience of Zhejiang. Zhejiang's mountains and waters are beautiful, and the "demonstration of 10000 villages and rectification of 10000 villages" was indeed carried out early and forward-looking. It is hoped that Zhejiang will continue to make efforts and continue to walk ahead.
In April 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping issued important instructions, calling for further promotion of Zhejiang's good experience and practices, adapting measures to local conditions, implementing precise policies, not engaging in "political performance projects" and "image projects", doing one thing after another, year after year, building beautiful villages that are ecologically livable, so that the vast number of farmers can have more sense of gain and happiness in rural revitalization.
In October 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping made an important instruction: Zhejiang's "Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Rectification" project started early, had an accurate direction and achieved good results, which not only had a demonstration effect on the whole country, but also was recognized internationally. It is necessary to sum up experience in depth, guide and urge all localities to work towards the set goals, continue to exert efforts, make contributions for a long time, and constantly write a new chapter in the construction of a beautiful China.
Concept guidance, planning first, blueprint paving. A profound transformation from the environment to production to life and ecology continues to advance in the vast countryside.
This is a continuous struggle that continues to make efforts and work for a long time——
Walking into Yu Village, the rolling mountains, flowing water, swaying bamboo, and different shades of green spread out in front of you.
"This year's Dragon Boat Festival business is better than in previous years." Pan Chunlin, the owner of Chunlin Villa, said excitedly while greeting the guests, "I never thought that Yucun would be like today, and I think my path is the right one." ”
Young people play frisbee on the lawn in front of the Yucun Village Library in Tianhuangping Town, Anji County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province (pictured on June 5, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cai Yang
More than 20 years ago, due to the development of the "stone economy", the mountains of Yucun became "bald light" and water became "soy sauce soup". The people of Yucun, who were painfully determined, decided to change their way of life and took advantage of the "ten million projects" to close down mines and cement factories one after another. Chunlin Villa is the first homestay opened after Yucun closed the mine.
In August 2005, Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, visited Yucun and after learning about Yucun's approach, he commented on "a clever move" and clearly stated for the first time that "green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains".
In March 2020, after revisiting Yucun after 15 years and witnessing changes along the way, General Secretary Xi Jinping said with satisfaction: "The achievements made by Yucun now prove that the path of green development is correct, and if the path is right, we must stick to it." ”
On the road to the green, Yucun never stopped. Relying on the beautiful environment, the farmhouse business is booming, rural tourism is booming, and the bamboo forest carbon sink has also allowed the village to achieve "relying on the air to sell money". "From relying on the mountains to eating the mountains, to the rich mountains and raising the mountains, we truly realize that the green water and green mountains are our happiness backers." Wang Yucheng, secretary of the Yucun village party branch, said.
The green relay of Yucun is a portrayal of the continuous struggle of the "Ten Thousand Project".
From 2003 to 2010, the demonstration of "10000 villages demonstration and 100000 village rectification" led the comprehensive improvement of the village environment and promoted the village to be more clean and orderly;
From 2011 to 2020, the "Thousand Villages Boutique and Ten Thousand Villages Beautiful" deepened and improved, promoting more beautiful and livable villages;
Since 2021, "the future of a thousand villages, the common prosperity of ten thousand villages" has been iteratively upgraded, forming a vivid situation of "a thousand villages to the future, ten thousand villages to common prosperity, urban and rural integration to promote integration, and global creation and beauty".
A blueprint is drawn to the end, year after year.
This is a profound change from point to surface, iterative upgrade——
Along the way, the "10 Million Project" started from the improvement of the rural living environment, but it has changed far more than that:
"Opening" to the pollution of the crystal industry, the "black smelly river" and "milk river" in Pujiang County, Jinhua City have disappeared, and the river water has become clearer;
In the Puyang River Tongle section of Pujiang County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, staff members take a boat to salvage floating objects on the surface of the water (taken on March 14, 2023, drone photo). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
By changing ideas, Potang Village, Jianhu Street, Yuecheng District, Shaoxing City, has made the village "new look" through "micro-transformation": fashionable shoulder bags made of stone, painted walls into green trains, and transformed dangerous old tea factories into rural art museums...
Villagers of Meiping Village, Xin'anjiang Street, Jiande City, Zhejiang Province, attend a banquet and watch a theatrical performance in the village cultural auditorium (pictured on May 27, 2023). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
Zhejiang Province has built nearly 20,000 rural cultural auditoriums, carrying brand projects such as "Our Village Night" and "Our Village Games", and has become the spiritual home of the vast number of farmers...
Villagers watch the "Our Village Night" performance at the Shijiaqiao Village Cultural Auditorium in Dojo Township, Wuxing District, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province (pictured on January 11, 2023). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
Building a beautiful ecology, strengthening the beautiful economy, and creating a better life, the Zhejiang countryside of "three beautiful integration" is full of vitality.
Villagers play basketball at the floodlit court at the Cultural and Sports Center in Zhili Town, Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province (pictured on January 18, 2022). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
In the past 20 years of rural transformation, the data is the most convincing: the scope of the "10 million project" has been extended from the initial 10,000 administrative villages to all administrative villages in the province; The per capita disposable income of rural residents in Zhejiang Province has ranked first in the country for 38 consecutive years; More than half of the administrative villages with an annual operating income of more than 500,000 yuan in the village-level collective economy; The ratio of urban and rural residents' income has shrunk from 2.43 in 2003 to 1.90 in 2022...
From the province to the whole country, the "Ten Million Project" has taken root in the vast Shenzhou, reshaping the face of more rural areas in China.
In September 2018, "Ten Million Project" won the "Champions of the Earth Award", the highest environmental honor of the United Nations. The award citation commented: "This highly successful ecological restoration project shows that environmental protection and economic development go hand in hand, and the transformative power can be generated. ”
The report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "Beautiful China", the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "implementing the strategy of rural revitalization", the Party Central Committee and the State Council proposed high-quality development and construction of common prosperity demonstration areas in 2021, and the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "accelerating the construction of an agricultural power"... The enlightenment of the "Ten Million Project" is precious, and it continues to provide rich experience that can be used for reference, guiding the way forward for the development of "three rural areas" and agricultural and rural modernization in the new era.
The relevant person in charge of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Zhejiang Province said that the essence of the "10 million projects" is the vivid practice of the world outlook and methodology of Xi Jinping's thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era in the field of "three rural areas", a profound adjustment of the relationship between urban and rural areas, and the relationship between man and nature, and a major change in rural production methods, lifestyles and governance methods.
Magnificent practice brings profound enlightenment: adhere to the feelings of the people, adhere to the concept of change, and do a good job in systematic planning
"What you see in Zhejiang is what China will look like in the future, and even what the world will look like in the future!"
During a visit to villages and towns in Zhejiang, China, in 2018, Eric Solheim, then Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UNEP, said this.
After 20 years of success, the "10 million project" has continuously won positive evaluation from the world. Alistair Boswick, a professor at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, said that the "10 Million Project" proved that it is feasible to achieve economic development while greatly improving the environment in rural areas, and its experience will provide lessons for other countries, whether developed or developing.
The experience and enlightenment contained in the "10 Million Project" not only provides ideas for promoting Chinese-style modernization, but also brings reference significance for other countries in the world to improve the environment.
-- Adhere to people-oriented, take the improvement of people's livelihood and well-being as the fundamental starting point, and enhance the enthusiasm and creativity of the peasant masses in the process of joint construction and sharing.
The people are the ones who read the papers. Adhere to the perspective of the masses, start from the things that farmers are most concerned about, and take every small matter of people's livelihood as a focus to bring a sense of gain and happiness to the vast number of farmers.
Come to Xiaogucheng Village, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, with lush trees and neat courtyards. The low courtyard walls are a feature of the village.
Villagers discuss rural development under an old camphor tree in Xiaogucheng Village, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province (pictured March 14, 2022). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Weng Xinyang
"This is all the result of discussion among the villagers." Lin Guorong, secretary of the party committee of Xiaogucheng Village, told reporters that it is not easy for villagers to lower the high fence that they have spent money on, and by inviting villagers to discuss matters and taking villagers out to visit, household by household to do work, and finally everyone unanimously approved.
Open the wall, open the "heart wall". Nowadays, the open neighborhood space not only makes the village more beautiful, but also shortens the distance between neighbors and villagers and tourists, and greatly enhances the "polite" rural civilization.
Everyone discussed and handled things in the village. In many villages in Zhejiang, discussion is an important part of promoting village construction. How to solve the lack of parking spaces on holidays, how to build camping sites, how to improve the overall style of the basic environment... Whether it is under the century-old camphor tree at the entrance of the village, by the small lotus pond, or in the online council hall, the villagers actively speak and contribute to the construction of their homes.
In Xiafeng Village, Yuelong Street, Ninghai County, Ningbo City, many villagers spontaneously decorated the village environment with old furniture, old clothes, tree stumps and bamboo tops, etc., which became a unique element of the rural public art space. In Ninghai, the "Ten Million Project" has driven some villages to transform from "cleaning" and "beautification" to "artistry", and farmers' initiative has been stimulated to actively participate in improving the beauty of the countryside.
The "Ten Million Project" has always been people-centered and draws wisdom from the people. From the beginning of "I want to build a beautiful village" to now "I want to build a beautiful village", the concept of shared governance has taken root in more and more villages, and has become an inexhaustible driving force for promoting village governance and development.
-- Adhere to the new development concept, take the path of green innovative development, and make overall calculations for the quality and speed of development.
Whether the development concept is correct or not fundamentally determines the development effectiveness and even the success or failure.
In summer, Hengshanwu Village, Lingfeng Street, Anji County, the bamboo sea stretches and the breeze is practiced. Walking into the homestay "Azhong's home", it is full of greenery, chic and warm.
"My family used to be the most remote family in the village, and now you can see that it is the most lively." Lan Qingxia, the owner of the "Post-95 Generation" homestay, recalled that in the past, the village was full of mud when it rained, but now it has become a sea of bamboo forests and flowers, plus special leisure projects, tourists linger.
With the advancement of the "10 million projects", Hengshanwu Village has started a large-scale campaign of village rectification and construction, hardening roads, demolishing illegal construction, controlling sewage, and continuously improving the rural environment. "The change of thinking has changed the world, and the change of development concept has allowed us to achieve transformation again and again and find a development path that suits us." Cai Mingfu, secretary of the general party branch of Hengshanwu Village, said.
Adhere to the new development concept, the key choice in exchange for continuous leaps: "international textile capital" Shaoxing Keqiao, gritting teeth to close a number of regulated enterprises, traditional industries that once had an impact on the environment are showing a new look; Jinhua Yongkang, the "hardware capital of China", has accelerated the elimination of low-level scattered and grafted Internet, and transformed and upgraded from "overwhelming" to fine and refined; Lishui Jinyun has worked hard to improve the ecological environment, and ushered in the establishment of global special glass manufacturers with extremely high environmental requirements...
Merchants shop for clothing in the China Textile City Market in Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province (photo taken on November 11, 2022). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Han
A beautiful environment is productivity. Only by calculating the big account, long-term account and comprehensive account of ecological and environmental protection, and constantly polishing the ecological background, can we not only protect the green water and green mountains, but also bring gold and silver mountains. Complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept, correct handling of the relationship between quality and speed, and the promotion of rural revitalization can be the right direction and focus points.
-- We must adhere to the concept of system, take the road of adapting measures to local conditions, and ensure that planning is carried out first, step by step, and achieved success over a long period of time.
Liuyi Gong Bistro, "Bow and Little Bird" Bamboo Square, Social Opera Stage... Walking in Anqiaotou Village, Sunduan Street, Shaoxing City, it seems to be swimming in Lu Xun's novel. This ordinary Jiangnan village has created a variety of formats around the characteristic IP of "Lu Xun's grandmother's house", which is attracting more and more tourists.
Villagers perform a cheongsam catwalk at the social drama stage in Anqiaotou Village, Sunduan Street, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province (pictured on June 7, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cai Yang
Many villagers always come to the social drama stage early to wait for their favorite shows to start. Every weekend, there will be Yue opera, aerobics, song and dance and other performances. In the future, Anqiaotou Village will also sell more cultural and creative products related to Lu Xun's works.
A thousand villages and thousands of faces, infinite vitality.
Focusing on the flower and wood industry, Tangdi Village, Lizhu Town, Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, "Millennium Lan Township", has blazed a new road to get rich; Relying on the "one leaf" of Jingshan tea, Jingshan Village, Jingshan Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, has laid out tea whisks, tea food, tea clothing, tea utensils and other related formats, and embarked on the road of integrated development of tea tourism; From fishing by "relying on the sea to eat the sea" to creating an island style to welcome guests, Liangzhi Village, Qushan Town, Daishan County, Zhoushan City, embarked on a new road of green revitalization...
Rural areas have a different scenery from the city, and they can become more desirable places for urban people. This also opens up a broad space for exploring the integrated development of urban and rural areas.
"How many soups are soaked and how many steamed buns". The "10 Million Project" provides an example of planning first, doing what we can, step by step, and taking points to lead the way.
While paying attention to top-level design, drawing construction blueprints from a strategic height, and emphasizing adapting measures to local conditions and giving play to comparative advantages, the "10 Million Project" is injecting more Chinese wisdom and strength into creating a harmonious and livable human home.
A new starting point to compose a magnificent chapter: speed up in the new picture of "1,000 villages leading, 10,000 villages revitalizing, common prosperity in the whole region, urban and rural harmony and beauty"
In the beautiful life center of Meilin Village, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, there are 24-hour rural digital study rooms, smart health service stations, unmanned gyms, unmanned supermarkets and other public facilities. Here, it has become a reality to carry out "health portraits" of villagers through digital means and monitor and warn people with chronic diseases.
A woman self-measures her blood pressure at the Good Life Center in Meilin Village, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province (pictured June 7, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cai Yang
When the "10 Million Project" was launched, Meilin Village was one of the "demonstration villages" at that time. 20 years later, as the first batch of "future village" pilots in Zhejiang Province, this village has set off again with a digital and intelligent look towards a better future life.
Recently, for adhering to and deepening the "10 million projects", Zhejiang Province has made the latest deployment: the province will build livable and workable and beautiful villages, build a strong province with efficient ecological agriculture in an all-round way, promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas in the county in a panoramic manner, promote the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas in the whole chain, strengthen rural social governance in the whole process, and accelerate the construction of a new picture scroll of "leading by thousands of villages, revitalizing ten thousand villages, common prosperity in the whole region, and harmony between urban and rural areas"...
Standing at a new starting point, drawing a new blueprint and writing a new chapter.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China focused on comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, making arrangements for accelerating the construction of an agricultural power and solidly promoting the revitalization of rural industries, talents, culture, ecology and organizations.
Embarked on a new journey, the good experience and good practices of the "10 Million Project" will continue to be promoted to the whole country, which will help accelerate the integrated development of urban and rural areas, promote the construction of a beautiful China, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, and lay a solid foundation for realizing Chinese-style modernization.
Looking at the vast land of Zhejiang, this beautiful relay spanning 20 years is taking on new vitality——
In the "shared garden" in Yulu Village, Dongyang City, Jinhua City, plant protection drones are spraying pesticides on rice, and intelligent remote monitoring boxes in the field monitor soil temperature, humidity, pH and other indicators in real time.
The village, which once creatively promoted the "sprinkling of live" methods to solve the problem of abandonment of fields, is now using digital means to help agriculture. Lu Yangchun, secretary of the party committee of Yulu Village, said that the "Yulu experience" in the new era is to grow better fields more intelligently, move towards high-tech modern agriculture, and achieve a win-win situation in efficient production and integration of agriculture and tourism.
In Houying Village, Changhua Town, Lin'an District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Wang Qiang, a major grain farmer, operates an agricultural drone to fertilize rice (pictured on September 21, 2022). Photo by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
The future village is a village full of science and technology, and it is also a village that accelerates integration with the city and complements each other.
In Yuxin Town, Nanhu District, Jiaxing City, a white building about 35 meters high and inlaid with large pieces of transparent glass resembles a "flying saucer", full of futuristic and inviting people.
This is the Yuri Future Community. Zero-carbon kindergartens, digital botanical gardens... In the well-designed exhibition areas, a variety of complex functions such as the elderly activity center, children's activity center, reading area, and volunteer home are cleverly interspersed, so that residents can enjoy "one-stop service" in a concentrated manner.
The income of farmers has ranked first in the province for 19 consecutive years, and the income ratio of urban and rural residents has shrunk to less than 1.60... The urban-rural gap continues to remain the smallest in the province, and Jiaxing is accelerating the construction of future communities and future villages, and is taking new steps on the road to further promoting urban-rural integration.
The key to sustainable rural development lies in people.
In recent years, there has been a new change in many villages in Zhejiang - there are more and more young people. There are "returnees" who have returned from the city, and more are "Xinxiang".
The once unattended "Hollow Village" has become an exquisite folk village under the transformation and operation of entrepreneurial young artists and young artists; In the "Digital Nomad Commune" in Yucun, groups of young people sit in the public area to brainstorm, and the natural and simple mountain village life allows them to find a balance between "making money to live" and "poetry and distant places"...
With the deepening of the "10 Million Project", attracting more young entrepreneurs, artists and international talents has become a new direction for each village. The gathering of "native people", "new villagers" and "returnees" will broaden the transformation channel of "green water and green mountains" into "golden mountains and silver mountains".
Yi Lianhong, Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, said that in the next step, Zhejiang will effectively promote the "10 million projects" to deepen and implement, accelerate the running on the road of integrated urban and rural development, stimulate new momentum for rural revitalization, shape the new temperament of rural style, explore a new path for common prosperity, and let the rural people enjoy the new achievements of modernization.
The future can be expected.
Surrounded by greenery, clear streams run around the village. In Xiajiang Village, Chun'an County, a sign at the entrance of the village stands out: the place where the dream began.
Aerial view of Xiajiang Village, Chun'an County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province (August 9, 2017, drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Zongzhi
Xiajiang Village is the grassroots contact point during General Secretary Xi Jinping's work in Zhejiang. This small mountain village, thanks to the guidance of the "10 million projects", completely bid farewell to "dirty and chaotic", transformed into "green and rich beauty", and formed a common prosperity consortium to drive more villages to get rich together, drawing a modern version of the "Fuchun Mountain House Map".
Sitting at the gate of his family-owned farmhouse "Wangxi", Jiang Zuhai, a villager in his 70s, had a happy smile on his face: "Our better days are yet to come..."
Source: Xinhua News Agency